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Warning to not install this extension if you use google ads in any capacity (work/blog/other), it will get your account banned from google very quick for clickf
by user5994461 6y ago
Warning to not install this extension if you use google ads in any capacity (work/blog/other), it will get your account banned from google very quick for clickfraud.
- notatoad 6y agoIn addition to google, it's likely to get you at least shadowbanned on any site that has ads and does any sort of basic fraud prevention.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoWhat's Shadowbanning? Never heard of this.
- notatoad 6y agoIt's where you're effectively banned without being told about it. You can still use the service, but any action you take is isolated from the rest of the site. The term I think comes from reddit but the concept is by no means unique to them: your upvotes or downvotes wouldn't affect rankings and nobody would ever see your submissions or comments other than you. The idea is to let spammers or fraudsters waste their energies on accounts that have already been flagged, instead of notifying them that they've been banned so they switch to a clean account.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoThanks, I had no idea! Never heard of this. Really good explanation.
- _jal 6y agoWell, yeah. Similarly, if you work in a bank, I recommend not spontaneously shouting about the evils of capital while lighting the til on fire. The entire point of the extension is to attack the incentive mechanism that makes ad networks work. This tends to mix poorly with trying to turn a profit from those same networks.